Bug#648220: After upgrade to gdm3 session selection defaults to "system default"

[Andreas Neudecker]

Package: gdm3
Version: 3.0.4-4
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I just updated a couple of packages, one of which pulled in the upgrade from
gdm2 to gdm3. Now, there is no option to start the "previous session". The
sessions drop down list defaults to "system default". But if you try to login
this fails because a system default seemingly doesn't exist. Also, after
selecting xfce session, loging in and out again, the next login will again
default to "system default" instead of an option "previous session" as there
was with gdm2. This is very inconvenient.

Kind regards

Andreas




-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii  accountsservice                             0.6.15-1  
ii  adduser                                     3.113     
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend                     0.7.5-3   
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                       1.5.40    
ii  gconf2                                      2.32.4-1  
ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]           3.0.2-3   
ii  gnome-session-bin                           3.0.2-3   
ii  gnome-session-fallback [x-session-manager]  3.0.2-3   
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]        3.0.1-1   
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                   3.0.1-1   
ii  libaccountsservice0                         0.6.15-1  
ii  libatk1.0-0                                 2.2.0-2   
ii  libattr1                                    1:2.4.46-3
ii  libaudit0                                   1.7.18-1  
ii  libc6                                       2.13-21   
ii  libcairo-gobject2                           1.10.2-6.1
ii  libcairo2                                   1.10.2-6.1
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                          0.28-3    
ii  libcanberra0                                0.28-3    
ii  libdbus-1-3                                 1.4.16-1  
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                            0.98-1    
ii  libfontconfig1                              2.8.0-3   
ii  libfreetype6                                2.4.7-2   
ii  libgconf2-4                                 2.32.4-1  
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                          2.24.0-1  
ii  libglib2.0-0                                2.28.8-1  
ii  libglib2.0-bin                              2.28.8-1  
ii  libgtk-3-0                                  3.0.12-2  
ii  libpam-modules                              1.1.3-4   
ii  libpam-runtime                              1.1.3-4   
ii  libpam0g                                    1.1.3-4   
ii  libpango1.0-0                               1.29.4-2  
ii  librsvg2-common                             2.34.1-3  
ii  libselinux1                                 2.1.0-1   
ii  libupower-glib1                             0.9.14-1  
ii  libwrap0                                    7.6.q-21  
ii  libx11-6                                    2:1.4.4-2 
ii  libxau6                                     1:1.0.6-3 
ii  libxdmcp6                                   1:1.1.0-3 
ii  libxklavier16                               5.1-2     
ii  libxrandr2                                  2:1.3.2-2 
ii  lsb-base                                    3.2-28    
ii  metacity [x-window-manager]                 1:2.34.1-2
ii  mutter [x-window-manager]                   3.0.2.1-4 
ii  policykit-1-gnome                           0.102-2   
ii  twm [x-window-manager]                      1:1.0.6-1 
ii  upower                                      0.9.14-1  
ii  xfce4-session [x-session-manager]           4.8.2-1   
ii  xfce4-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]        0.4.8-1   
ii  xfwm4 [x-window-manager]                    4.8.2-1   
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]                 276-1     

Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii  at-spi                 1.32.0-1      
ii  desktop-base           6.0.7         
ii  gnome-icon-theme       3.2.1.2-1     
ii  gnome-power-manager    3.0.2-3       
ii  gnome-settings-daemon  3.0.3-3       
ii  x11-xkb-utils          7.6+4         
ii  xserver-xephyr         2:1.11.1.901-2
ii  xserver-xorg           1:7.6+9       
ii  zenity                 3.2.0-1       

Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
ii  gnome-mag             <none>    
ii  gnome-orca            <none>    
ii  gok                   <none>    
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  3.0.3-2   
ii  metacity              1:2.34.1-2

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/gdm3/greeter.gconf-defaults changed:
/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/logo_icon_name 	debian-swirl
/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/banner_message_enable		false
/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list		true
/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager		false
/apps/gnome-power-manager/ui/icon_policy		never


-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3
  gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3